thr0w

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by thr0w 1y ago
> - Relentless scope creep I'm in tears reading this, I've never seen it worded so perfectly. Have we all experienced that founder who has zero vision for what they're building and is so brutally relentless with ancillary
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by thr0w 1y ago
> If you obtain two or more copies of the decrypted content you will be able to diff them and work out what you need to corrupt even without knowledge of the watermarking process. By the time you've destroyed enough of the signal to
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by thr0w 1y ago
> If the movie is streamed in chunks, only certain short segments would need to be reencoded to add watermark data Look into A/B watermarking - https://techdocs.akamai.com/adaptive-media-delivery/docs/add..
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by thr0w 1y ago
Nagra's forensic watermarking tech.
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by thr0w 1y ago
NexGuard is a wild product.
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by thr0w 2y ago
Sounds like the issue was just co-location of search index + other transactional data in the same table. If you had a table acting as your search index only then would insert lag on that table matter? I could maybe see connections piling
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by thr0w 2y ago
Love how this stuff gets painted as psychiatric disorder. Some people are oafish, it's natural to be disgusted by their behavior.
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by thr0w 2y ago
What Apple needs, is to fix that weird bug where my mouse cursor stops responding to what it's hovering over. How does something so fundamentally broken make its way into an OS?
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by thr0w 2y ago
> Abstracting all of this complexity away in one general tool/library and pretending that it will always work is snake oil. Remember Meteor?
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by thr0w 2y ago
And will continue to, I think. There's probably a long tail of startups that raised near the end of zirp and will have their runway diminish over the course of the next few years.
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by thr0w 2y ago
In my memory (was young at the time), 95 coming out was such a huge event. Something about its emphasis on multimedia experience really changed the whole feel of the PC, at least for me. 3.1 was like this arcane puzzle, but 95 felt personab
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by thr0w 2y ago
> I really dread the idea of having social media algorithms decide who gets to talk to who. We're getting there, whether that's dating apps controlling your stack of faces one at a time, or even seemingly innocuous things like
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by thr0w 2y ago
Funny thing is that when dating apps used to be "browse profiles, send message", nobody had to debate inner workings. Users could self select people of interest, send them a message directly, and know there'd be a very good c
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by thr0w 2y ago
Same. Bought a few different gens of the laptop. Wanted to love them as an alternative to MacBook. To me, Windows 10 is a much better OS than anything Apple. Fit and finish are good (they have to be, because Apple raised the bar). Alcantara
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by thr0w 2y ago
The market was so insane.
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by thr0w 2y ago
I think this gets to the heart of the current situation. The hard truth is that a lot of office workers are actually unskilled labor hidden behind the right kind of social conditioning and "professionalism".
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by thr0w 2y ago
> I've gotten to levels of meditation through it that still make me question reality. I don't know if this matches anything you achieve through meditation, but I've had some incredibly complex and vivid dreams that make me
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by thr0w 2y ago
This was interesting, thanks for posting it. I experienced intense, complex night terrors when I was a kid, although I was never abused (that I know of). I wonder why. > being persecuted by police I have these too in my current life, but
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by thr0w 2y ago
> uniformed I'm there in person on a weekly basis. Better to be experienced than informed.
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by thr0w 2y ago
What, Moynihan Hall, the separate structure across the street? Dilapidated Penn Station remains.
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by thr0w 2y ago
They should've included photos of the current Penn Station in all its dilapidated strip mall glory, complete with indoor beggars left free to bug you for a dollar while you try to pay for a slice of pizza. I guess putting the two side-
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by thr0w 2y ago
Growing up, people on the street would fidget with their cigarettes. Now they fidget with their phones.
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by thr0w 2y ago
> They're usually _really_ interested in properly understanding what's actually happened here Most jr devs these days aren't like this.
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by thr0w 2y ago
It is rounded and slippery and big enough that it exposes double-tap to make the screen slide down.
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by thr0w 2y ago
> pest control SaaS How does this work? Are we talking computer bugs?
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by thr0w 2y ago
No fool like an old fool.
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by thr0w 2y ago
Getting a new stick of RAM was so damn exciting in the 90s.
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by thr0w 2y ago
Don't agree with their characterization of `pg_repack`. `VACUUM FULL` is definitely crushing, but that's why repack exists as a faster/lighter alternative. Anyone have a different experience?
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by thr0w 2y ago
> Front pages were full of technical discussion back in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Content of that kind is less frequent these days. Yeah, noticed the same trend. Reflective of the overall, as you said.
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by thr0w 2y ago
> I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down. Just tried this, didn't get any notification.

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